Quite frankly, at this point, I'm tired of dealing with psychologists/psychiatrists.

In my experience, they - psychiatrists - either just want to give you medication right away or - with psychologists - after quite a few sessions already paid for in hard money, it turns out they can't help you due to not having the right qualifications or they don't have time for regular enough appointments or I just don't mesh well with them, not enough trust, etc.

I've wasted so much time and money on trying to find a therapist or whatever expert I may need to solve my problems.

I am also skeptical about psychotherapy being efficient enough especially at the price it comes at for one hour of talking. It's a really really inefficient use of time. Surely there are other options? I am otherwise not against certain forms of psychotherapy but under such conditions I can't do much with it.

I also cannot do much with the forms of therapy that are aimed at building some emotional connection with the therapist. Or the forms that require free association, I am hopeless at that sort of stuff. CBT is not bad but I think I need more than CBT, unfortunately.

Also, my own views on medication is - with the exception of people whose brains have imbalances of genetic origin - that it's only good temporarily while you find the root cause of your issues and then you can modify your own mindsets, attitudes, behavioural strategies and/or your environment.

So medication is completely out of the question for me, though considering the severity of my issues, maybe I'm delusional about my ability to avoid it forever. Though I'm sure they are nowhere near as severe as some other people's on these boards. Not yet anyway. So I am still hoping to avoid it... I don't know about the future though, will I get worse or better.

I think what I'd like is someone who has intuitive understanding of people who I can talk to regularly enough, a few hours a week at the minimum, and not for much money. I don't know if that is enough to solve my problems of course but it would be nice to have this for a start. Anything like that available?